"The spokesperson also acknowledged that Microsoft won't be bringing all of the same capabilities in SQL Server 2016 to Linux; it will be just the "core relational database capabilities."
As somewhat expected this will be a limited release catering mostly to cloud customers (Azure in particular) - who knows down the road they will port all features to Linux including the UI management tools but I would be surprised if they don't keep the niche features Windows-only.
Welcome announcement anyway - having a supported mainstream DB other than Oracle on Linux is a good thing.
> I would be surprised if they don't keep the niche features Windows-only.
For some definition of niche, which in this case may very well include "enterprise class features" such as replication...
This is a way for MS to increase exposure and draw people into their ecosystem (at least for a part of their infrastructure) in an increasingly OS agnostic world. I don't think it makes sense for them to cannibalize their current revenue sources to do so, and a part of that is requiring expensive Windows Server licenses for high-end MSSQL features.
Mainstream yes and you can buy support for them but they are not supported by majority of the Enterprise 3rd party/COTS software. Most enterprise products you can license only work with Oracle on Linux.
"The spokesperson also acknowledged that Microsoft won't be bringing all of the same capabilities in SQL Server 2016 to Linux; it will be just the "core relational database capabilities."
As somewhat expected this will be a limited release catering mostly to cloud customers (Azure in particular) - who knows down the road they will port all features to Linux including the UI management tools but I would be surprised if they don't keep the niche features Windows-only.
Welcome announcement anyway - having a supported mainstream DB other than Oracle on Linux is a good thing.